Medical spa

How does Medical Spa work?

World-famous Spa Piešťany owes its reputation mainly to the remarkable natural springs, the unique healing potential of which has been verified by hundreds of generations, both in the distant as well as in recent past. After all the „crutch breaker“ himself, the famous symbol o Piešťany spa, is a very accurate expression of the healing nature of the Piešťany's natural phenomenon. The real idea behind the crutch breaker is not exaggerated at all, because crutch is something, which becomes for many of our patients after the treatment redundant. This was the case in the past and it is the same nowadays, and we will do our best that this remains to be true also in the future

Natural healing sources
The unique healing sources are the reason why people come to Piešťany since older times, and this was also the reason why the spa were created here. The healing effects of the local thermal mineral water and sulphur mud were first described by physicians in the 14th century.

Thermal mineral sulphur water
Thermal mineral water in spa Piešťany has a high content of minerals (1500 mg per litre). The water also contains hydrogen sulphide and other free gases. It springs from tectonics faults at a depth about 2000 metres. The water temperature of the springs is 67 to 69°C. Output is around 3 million litres daily

Sulphur mud
Sulphur mud is a unique peloid both in the European as well as world-wide scale. Its base is a homogenised sediment precipitating in the river Váh by-pass branch on the site of the current hot springs of the sulphuric thermal mineral water.

The mud has important antifungal features. It is prepared for balneology application using the original technology, which cause it to mature and regenerate, which is accompanied by multitude o chemical and biological reactions. The mature mud has a butter-like consistency, it is greasy, malleable, with good heat conducting features, it cools down four times faster than water compared to which the former has 350x higher viscosity. Mud application temperature is approximately 45°C; duration of partial or total wrap is 20 minutes. The wrap causes a temporary local, as well as total body overheating, which depends on the application area of the wrap. The mud wrap causes the reduction of local swellings around joints, reduction of the muscle tension, better nutrition of cartilage, connective tissues and intervertebral discs. It strengthens anti-inflammatory activity and immune processes within the body, preventing degradation of elastine, collagen and hyaluronane, and thus improving the function of cartilage, connective tissues and joint motorics.

Indications
Rheumatic inflammatory disorders (rheumatic arthritis, Mb. Bechterew; rheumatism of soft tissues, fibrositis, fibromyalgy), degenerative non-inflammatory rheumatic disorders (attrition, metabolic arthropathies – gouty arthritis, premature aging of the musculoskeletal system), neural disorders (sciatica, CB - syndrome, paralysis of nerves, disorders of the appearance and body statics), orthopedic disorders (scoliosis, spine deformations, post-surgery and post-traumatic disorders of the musculoskeletal system)

Contraindications
Infectious diseases, cardio-respiration system failure, acute thrombophlebitis, inflammatory rheumatic diseases in an acute state, tumor diseases with metastasis, acute psychosis, labile diabetes with epetitive acidity, pregnancy, dependency on alcohol or other habitual drugs, urine and faeces incontinence, states requiring care by a third person, epilepsy with frequent seizures.

Therapeutic services and treatments

• Balneotherapy: mud pool, thermal mineral bath (mirror pool), individual thermal mineral bath, individual thermal bubble bath, carbon dioxide thermal bath
  
• Hydrotherapy: bubble bath, underwater jet massage, hydromassage, stepping bath, scottish spray
  
• Physiotherapy: medical massage, individual and group therapeutic exercise, water rehabilitation, rehabilitation path, traction, segment and connective tissue massage, foot reflex massage, lymph massage, antispastic kinezitherapy, manipulation and mobilisation therapy, ergo therapy
  
• Electrotherapy: galvanic bath, four cell galvanic bath, interference, diadynamic stimulus current therapy, magnetic therapy, ultrasound therapy 
  
• Packs: mud pack (full-body or local), parafango pack, paraffin pack
  
• Inhalation: inhalation, oxygen inhalation, Salt cave (with thermal mineral bath)
  
• Phototherapy: laser therapy, bioptron lamp
  
• CO2 natural gas injections
• Psychologist, Speech therapist

Consulting rooms of spa physicians are in the Hotel Jalta. Curative healing treatments are provided in the Napoleon Health Spa on Spa Island (300m away).